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MLA 2027 Guaranteed Panels: Empowering Language Change and Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

Organized by Modern Languages Association – LSL Language Change Forum

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Submission deadline: March 25, 2026
Format: In person
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Compensation: Not listed

About this call

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for two panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles. The panels seek papers on how linguistic change enables emancipatory practices and how emancipatory movements become visible through changes in language.

Topics

Linguistic change and emancipatory practicesLanguage change as evidence of emancipatory movements

Session formats

Panel paper presentations